Address-plate holder



July 1924. 560,438

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UNITED STATES PATENT caries."-

CLIFTON CHISHOLM, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN MULTI- GRAPH COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

ADDRESS-PLATE HOLDER. A

Application filed March 20, 1922. Serial No. 545,041.v

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, CLIFTON CHIsrioLM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in an Address.

Plate Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates toprinting plate holders, and particularly to such holders as are primarily adapted for use in connection with addressing machines.

In using address plates, it is frequently necessary to provide means such as index tabs whereby the plates may be distinguished one from the other, so that they may be classified, either for the purpose of enabling ready manual sorting, or to enable an address printing machine to mechanically distinguish between address plates and print from certain only of the plates.

It is an object of my invention to provide convenient holding means by which an index tab may be firmly secured upon an article, suchas an address plate holder, and to provide an index tab of improved construction which is particularly adapted for use with such holding means.

Further and other objects of the invention will be apparent from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a plate holder constructed according to my invention; Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same' Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 Fig. 1; F 1g. 4 is a section on line 1-4, Fig. 1, with the printing plate and index card in position; Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the index tab.

The present application is concerned with the index tab and the same in combination with a plate holder having features which directly cooperate therewith. The plate holder per se shown in the drawings is covered in my divisional application No. 663,680 filed Sept. 19, 1923. Reference should also be made to my prior Patents, Nos. 1,438,578 and 1,438,580 issued December 12, 1922, which show plate holders having some of the characteristics of the plate holder shown herein.

The body portion ofthe plate holder is a sheet metal blank 10 bent over at 11 to provide rails and the. body portion of the plate holder opposite the rails may have indentations 1.2 therein. The lower portion ofthe plate holder is shown as turned over, as at it will be observed, extend above the adjacent body-of the plate holder to provide a space for the reception of the index members 20.

Plate holders of this character are adapted to receive embossed printing plates .P (Fig. 4:) which are'inserted beneath the projections 21 and 22 and which extend beneath the rolled over portion 14:. A, resilient tongue 25, shown as struck, from the body of theplate holder, maybe provided with akeeper 27 which may be a lip struck from the body of the tongue 25. The plate holder is inserted in the left in Fig. 1, and is moved along being engaged by the tongue 22 and, the rib let until the end of the plate holder passes beyond the keeper27, whereupon the tongue 25 being released springs up to cause the keeper 27 to engage .the end of the plate holder. 7 In using these address plates, it is .convenient to have an identification member thereon which bears indicia corresponding to the characters on the printing plate. Such identification member (indicated at C in Fig. 4.) may bev engaged beneath the turned over portion 16 and beneath the tongue 30 which may be struck from the body of the plate holder. Lateral movement of this identification card is prevented by projections ,or tongues 31 and 32.

, These plate holders. are subjected to rather hard usage and on account of the, great quantity used, it is necessary for the sake of economy to use light material in their manufacture. For the reasons set forth. it

becomes necessary to reinforce the plate of the plate holder. These corrugations 3 L are preferably adapted to extend partially beneath the superimposed printing members.

Other reinforcing ribs or corrugations are shown at 35, at the right hand side of Fig. 1. These latter ribs or corrugations also extend partially beneath and partially beyond the space occupied by the printing plate.

The body of the plate holder is preferably depressed, as at 36, forming a panel and from this panel I strike up a plurality of sets of longitudinally extending corrugations or ribs 37. The latter corrugations or ribs may have their upper surface disposed in the same plane as the body portion of the plate holder.

It will thus be apparent that the top surface of the ribs or corrugations 37 and the surfaces 38 and 39 of the body of the plate holder adjacent each end of the panel, as well as the adjacent surfaces 40 and 41 at the top and bottom of the panel are disposed in the same plane, thus providing a flat bearing for the printing member and assuring an even impression during printing.

The corrugations 34 and 35 preferably extend outwardly from the holder in a direction opposite to the direction of the c0rru gations 37. Between the rib or corrugations 33 and the turned over portion 16, I show a plurality of projections 15. These projections preferably extend downwardly looking at Fig. 1, and are preferably evenly spaced. These projections are adapted to engage an index tab to hold it in position.

An index tab adapted particularly for use with my new plate holder is shown in Fig. 5. It is preferably made of a single strip of material and comprises a long portion 50 and a short portion 51. The short portion may have a transverse rib 53 there on. "The short portion 51, it will be noted, is bent to incline normally downwardly toward the long portion 50 while the end of the long portion 50 is bent to normally incline upwardly beyond the end of the portion 51. The long portion 50 is preferably provided with a slot or recess 55.

The construction of the index tab is such that it may fit between two of the projections 45, or, if desired, it may be arranged astride one of such projections with the slot 45 fitting over a projection 55. In either position the index tab will be firmly held; when over a projection by the engagement of the slot 55 with the projection 45, and when intermediate a projection by the engagement of the sides of the member 50 with the sides of the projections 45. The corrugation 53 is adapted in position to engage the turned over portion 16 at the side of the plate while the pointed end 52 engages the top surface of the identification card when the latter is in position. The end 50 of the index tab bears upon the back of the plate holder and is of such a length that its end 56 abuts against the outwardly projectingface of the corrugation 33 and thus downward movement of the index tab is prevented.

From the foregoing, it will be apparent that the index tab is prevented from lateral movement either by the engagement of the projection 45 in the slot 55, or by the engagement of the sides of the index tab with the outer surfaces of the projections 45 and the index tab is prevented from downward movement by the engagement of the end 56 with the corrugation or rib 33 and also by the engagement of the corrugation 53 with the turned over portion 16.

In placing an index tab upon the plate holder, the portion 50 is preferably placed against the back of the holder, whereupon a transverse movement of the doubled end portion of the index tab with respect to the plate holder causes the portion 51 to move away from the portion 50, thus allowing the index tab to be slipped to position, where its natural resiliency, in conjunction with the surfaces of the plate holder engaged thereby, will firmly hold it in position.

If desired, the index tab may he slid along the plate holder without removal by spring ing the long portion 50 away from the hold er so that the slot 55 is free of the projections 15. The index tab may be moved to the desired position and then be released to engage either between two of the projections 45 or with its slot 55 over one of such pro jections 45.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. A movable index tab comprising a strip of material bent into a U-shape to provide two portions spaced apart a slight distance, one of said portions being provided with a transversely extending corrugation located about midway between the end of the leg and the bend of the U, whereby said cor.- rugation may embrace an edge bead and the tab project materially beyond the same.

2. An index tab comprising a strip of metal bent to form two portions, one of which extends beyond the other, the longer portion being provided with a slot beyond the short portion, and the short portion being provided with acorrugation extend.- ing transversely thereof.

3. The combination of a plate holder having a plurality of transversely extending.

index tab holding projections thereon, and a Llshaped index tab extending beyond the projections and adapted to straddle the plate and having in one leg a recess to fit over a projection, said address plate holder having a longitudinally extending folded over rib thereon, and the index tab having in the other leg a corrugation between the bend of the U and the end of that leg.

"I. An index tab comprising a strip of resilient metal formed to provide two portions, said portions being bent toward each other whereby the natural resiliency of the index tab will cause it to tightly grip an object, one of said portions having an intermediately located corrugation and there being a slot in the other portion.

5. .The combination of a plate holder and an index tab, means to prevent inward movement of the index tab upon said plate holder, said means including a corrugation on the plate holder against which the end of the index tab abuts, a corrugation on the index tab which engages a portion of the plate holder, and a slot in the index tab which engages a projection on the plate holder.

6. The combination of a plate holder having a turned-over upper edge and a row of tab holding projections adjacent such upper edge, and an index tab comprising a U-shaped piece of spring metal adapted to embrace the upper edge of the plate holder, said tab having one comparatively long leg adapted to extend onto the rear side of the plate holder and engage a projection, and another comparatively short leg adapted toextend onto the front side of the plate holder, said comparatively short leg having a corrugation etween the end of that leg and the bend of the U, such corrugation being adapted to cooperate with the turned-over edge of the plate holder and thereby position the tab with its U bend a material distance beyond such turned-over edge.

7. The combination of a plate holder having a plurality of index tab holding projections thereon, the projections being equally spaced on said plate and an index tab adapted to straddle the plate and having a recess adapted to fit over one of the projections, the width of said index tab being substantially the same as the distance between the projections, whereby the tab may be fitted between the projections, or may be fitted over them.

8. The combination of an address plate holder comprising a metal body having portions at its ends extending upwardlybeyond the intermediate portion of the top edge, said holder having a row of tab holding proj ections adjacent such intermediate top edge, and an index tab comprising a U-shaped piece of spring metal adapted to embrace the upper edge of the holder and engage one of such projections, there being means for positioning such tab that it projects a material distance beyond the upper edge, but not farther than the end portions of the plate holder.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto aflix my signature.

CLIFTON CHISHOLM. 

